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Mets add Jeff McNeil to lineup for Game 5 of NLCS vs. Dodgers - ESPN

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NEW YORK — New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza is looking for the right combination of hitters to push across a few more runs in Game 5 of the NLCS against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday, starting four lefties including second baseman Jeff McNeil and designated hitter Jesse Winker.

For McNeil, 32, it is his first postseason start this month. «Trying to give a different look to our lineup, an extra lefty there today,» Mendoza said Friday afternoon.

McNeil hit .238 during the regular season, playing in 129 games. He'll replace Jose Iglesias in the lineup. Iglesias has had exactly one hit in every game of the series but Mendoza wants to give Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty a different look after the righty shut his team out over seven innings in Game 1 on Sunday.

He also moved third baseman Mark Vientos down a spot in the order, from second to third. «Because they've only got one lefty out of the pen, I don't want to give them an easy lane to shoot a lefty whenever they need to,» Mendoza said of the move. «And then with some of the lefties that are in the lineup, just kind of protect some of the righties as well.

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